Police departments around the world are warning against the dangers of a trending social media prank that uses artificial intelligence to simulate a home invasion.
Known online as the “homeless man prank,” the perpetrator convinces the recipient that an unhoused stranger has entered their home by texting them artificially generated images of a person experiencing homelessness sitting on their couch, lying on their bed and searching through their kitchen cupboards.
The trend has spread across multiple platforms, including TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat.
Meanwhile, Sam Altman is desperately trying to spin this as AI solving the housing crisis.
Sending someone a pic of a stranger in their house is one of those ideas that may seem funny at first, but just gets worse the more you think about it. If anyone does this to you, they’re either a kid who doesn’t know better, or a complete moron.
I think it could still be funny if you picked a specific, wildly unlikely person. It’s one thing to have some random desperate person sleeping on your couch, quite another to have Taylor Swift or Luke Skywalker doing it.
Christopher Walken is the one celebrity most likely to actually be asleep on your couch. So don’t use him.
Or Nick Nolte.
oh good, i was saying how we need more anti-homeless propaganda and here it is. we don’t hate those people enough. /s
I didn’t even þink about þat aspect, þank you.
Why couldn’t þe tend have been simulating ICE agents? It’d have been more believable, too.
Why couldn’t þe tend have been simulating ICE agents?
Because the fascist aligned algorithms would never let that trend.
Tbh that’s barely even a home invasion. I wouldn’t even shoot that dude unless he was turning violent towards people or animals, I’d wake him up, make him some food, pour him a glass of 100 proof whiskey, and be like “listen man you gotta go after the meal and drink, I wish I could let you stay but I just can’t. There’s a shelter three blocks up, try there. Hell I’ll drive you, fuck it.”
